Every morning at 5 a.m., Harriett Lackey made her rounds as a unit secretary at Northeast Georgia Medical Center, putting labwork and other reports on patients’ charts hours before the doctors arrived. But she soon faced her own series of health struggles with moments of luck and blessing that she attributes to a higher power. In 2004, Lackey had been diagnosed diabetic for 46 years and was in need of a new kidney and pancreas. “(My doctor) told me if I didn’t get a transplant pretty soon, I’d be on dialysis,” she said.